### **Chapter 693 — Northern Meridian Night**
The **Heaven Cutter Sect** stood high among the mountains of the **Northern Meridian**.
Night had already fallen.
The stars shone clearly across the sky.
Inside the quiet courtyard of the sect—
**Yang Lin** stood beside the stone railing, looking toward the distant horizon.
The mountain wind moved gently through the trees.
For a moment, the sect was completely peaceful.
A young disciple approached respectfully.
"Senior Yang Lin."
Yang Lin did not turn.
"What is it?"
The disciple bowed.
"Senior FeiFei is cultivating in her room."
Yang Lin nodded slightly.
"And **Su Qinlan**?"
The disciple replied quickly.
"She also returned to her room to cultivate."
The disciple quietly stepped back and left.
Yang Lin remained alone in the courtyard.
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### **Chapter 694 — Quiet Thoughts**
The night sky stretched endlessly above the mountains.
Yang Lin slowly lifted his gaze toward the stars.
His expression remained calm.
But his mind was not peaceful.
After a moment he spoke quietly to himself.
"What strange fate…"
His eyes narrowed slightly.
"First **Han Chen**…"
"Then **Ning Mei**…"
The wind moved softly through the courtyard.
Yang Lin's gaze deepened.
"Where did they come from?"
For a long moment—
He said nothing.
Then he exhaled slowly.
"I know…"
"But I won't say it."
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### **Chapter 695 — The Hidden Origin**
Yang Lin's eyes reflected the distant stars.
His thoughts moved far beyond the **Northern Meridian**.
Far beyond the **Southern Meridian**.
There was something about **Han Chen** and **Ning Mei** that others could never understand.
Their presence.
Their aura.
Even their cultivation paths.
They did not belong to this world.
Yang Lin already knew the answer.
"They fell…"
His voice was barely audible.
"…from a crack."
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### **Chapter 696 — The Unknown Crack**
High above the worlds—
Far beyond ordinary perception—
A strange **crack** existed.
It was not a normal spatial tear.
It connected two completely different realms of existence.
Yang Lin had sensed it long ago.
"An unknown crack…"
He murmured quietly.
His eyes darkened slightly.
"Leading from the **Upper Inner World**."
Very few beings even knew that such a place existed.
But Yang Lin did.
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### **Chapter 697 — A Distant Place**
The wind grew colder across the mountains.
Yang Lin folded his hands behind his back.
"Where they come from…"
He looked toward the endless sky.
"…is a place so far away that no one here could imagine it."
Even the most powerful cultivators of the **Northern Meridian** would not understand.
That place existed beyond the limits of this world.
Beyond sects.
Beyond meridians.
Beyond even the heavens themselves.
Yang Lin's eyes flickered slightly.
But he said nothing more.
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### **Chapter 698 — FeiFei's Cultivation**
Inside a quiet chamber within the **Heaven Cutter Sect**—
**FeiFei** sat cross-legged on a cultivation platform.
Her eyes were closed.
A gentle aura flowed around her body.
The spiritual energy of the mountains slowly gathered toward her.
Her cultivation had improved greatly since entering the sect.
But she was still far from the heights she hoped to reach.
The room was silent.
Only the faint rhythm of her breathing remained.
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### **Chapter 699 — Su Qinlan's Resolve**
Not far away—
Inside another quiet chamber—
**Su Qinlan** was also cultivating.
Her expression remained calm.
But her mind remembered the events of earlier that day.
The arrogant demand of **Zhao Kuang**.
And the destruction of the **Crimson Blade Sect**.
Yang Lin had acted without hesitation.
Her eyes slowly opened.
She whispered quietly.
"Thank you…"
Then she closed her eyes again and returned to cultivation.
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### **Chapter 700 — The Silent Mountain**
Back in the courtyard—
Yang Lin remained standing beneath the night sky.
The mountains of the **Northern Meridian** were quiet.
But his thoughts had already traveled far away.
To the **Southern Meridian**.
To the **Red Dust Pavilion**.
To a woman standing beside a lake of red lotus flowers.
"Han Chen…"
His voice was almost a whisper.
Then another name appeared in his mind.
"Ning Mei."
Both of them carried secrets.
Secrets connected to that distant place beyond the sky.
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### **Chapter 701 — The Hidden Truth**
Yang Lin closed his eyes slowly.
There were many things he understood.
But very few things he would ever reveal.
The truth about the **Upper Inner World**.
The truth about the **unknown crack**.
The truth about where **Han Chen** and **Ning Mei** truly came from.
He had the answers.
But he had no intention of speaking them.
Not yet.
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### **Chapter 702 — The Calm Before Change**
The night deepened across the **Heaven Cutter Sect**.
FeiFei continued cultivating.
Su Qinlan strengthened her foundation.
Far away in the **Southern Meridian**, **Han Chen** gazed at the moon.
And in the **Starry Sky Sect**, **Mo Ziyan** stood quietly before the statue once again.
None of them realized—
The calm surrounding the meridians would not last forever.
Because somewhere far beyond the sky—
The **unknown crack** was slowly opening again.